These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

Check requirements.txt for packages to install

Installations for mac and linux users

First clone the repository from Github and switch to the project directory

• git clone https://github.com/Victorspy-web/django-contact-app-no-pic.git

Open terminal and install pipenv for your project

You can use any other way of creating a virtual env if you are familiar with venvs

• sudo apt install pipenv

Install Django, activate and migrate project

Create this two files in the project base where settings.py can be found

1) SECRET_KEY.py 
2) EMAIL_CONFIG_INFO.py

• Inside the SECRET_KEY.py, create a variable name called SECRET_KEY and store your secret key in it. https://djecrety.ir can help you generate one.

• Inside the EMAIL_CONFIG_INFO.py file, create 2 variable names called;

  • EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'gmail address name'

  • EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'gmail address password'

    • If google is not allowing you to login into you account using django then visit this url and set it ON https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

• pipenv install django==3.2 . Dont forget the space and dot at the end!

• pipenv shell

• python manage.py makemigrations

• python manage.py migrate

Create django superuser

• python manage.py createsuperuser
  • Fill in the fields to create a superuser Passwords are invisble

You can now run the development server

• python manage.py runserver
  • Paste this link in your browser to run local server http://127.0.0.1:8000